Joey Millar

As far as clunky literary devices go, the train from Oslo to Bodø is hard to beat. Stretching 1,300km up Norway's spine, the route conveniently traces the country's modern football history in an efficient, narrative-friendly fashion.

In football’s long parade of bad ideas, the 2011 Carling Nations Cup – wholesomely dubbed the Celtic Cup before sponsors swooped in – was so packed with farce it seems more like a fever dream with every passing year.

In Kim Jong-un's hermit state, football is diplomacy with studs

THE coldest winter Mark Twain ever spent was a summer in San Francisco - but the past few months might have given him a run for his money.

There is a road in downtown Cairo, just a long goal kick from the banks of the Nile, named after a long-forgotten Dulwich Hamlet player.

In the midst of all the beautiful chaos in Brazil last summer, an anniversary passed with little fanfare: it has been exactly 20 years since Ireland’s greatest World Cup triumph, a 1-0 win over Italy at USA ’94.